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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I've completely misunderstood the ankle technique, until this video. When you put it in a "dribble a basketball" motion, it made so much more sense.

Revisiting this lesson after I raised the throne up and loosened the spring tension. Huge difference, I’ve been playing with too much tension and it’s been hindering the progression. I’m just trying to be the best drumming version of myself I can and Your definitely keeping Me motivated. Thanks again Cam.

Thanks a lot! Very helpful!!! Have a nice day

Just what I needed this week! 🤘🏼🥁🤘🏼

This video Gives me positive energy ⚡

Great Lesson Cameron. Thank You!

Great stuff! Keep em comin 🤘🤘

Thankx Cameron for real good explanation and demonstration. The free workout is a bad link 404 ✌️

It took a minute for my brain to adjust to you having three legs. Oh okay wow there's another screen at the bottom!! He is not a 3-legged man!

Nice video, as always!

I've always wanted to improve my double bass speed and control without doing the obvious: take time to practice to improve! Sometimes I get very motivated and practice double bass for a week or so, then I let it go... Now it's time, let's do this 🤘

Hi Cam thanks for the video do you have any tips on how to combine the left and right foot ? Can do each foot but when put together each foot doesn't alternate well.Both foot seems to land together if that make sense? Cheers

Excellent double pedals lessons Cameron👍🎼🥁🎼👍!!!

Well said man !

From Mexico 🇲🇽, es el video que vengo buscando desde hace meses atras, apenas compre mi doble pedal y no encontraba video que me explicara paso a paso la tecnica, gracias por la información, saludos 🥁🙏 Suscriptor nuevo 🤙

Thanks so much for the guide. This has helped me a lot more than any other tutorial here on KZfaq. Everyone was saying to tighten the spring to max and play from slower speed; both of which I had a hard time doing. Thanks for clearing this up Question but any tips of how to start tge first stroke/beat. Once I got the motion going, it’s quite easy to maintain it at my comfortable tempo. But I’m having a very hard time starting that motion. Any advice to overcome that?

Thanks Cameron! What I do is kinda use ankle weights while playing so that later when I play without them it kinda helps me go fast, it's not the best but it does help me a bit! But this has been a useful video man! Thanks!

Good to know others run low or no spring tension🤘

Thank you. On any other video I've seen, they all suggest max spring tension. I can not control my feel at all. I actually just loosened my springs back to how I keep my single pedal, and it's made a huge difference 🙃. What I'm finding odd is I'm leading with my L as if I'm keeping time on my 16ths. Would you suggest I switch? Excellent video

Heyy broo I got the ankle technique.. Inspired by u... I can beat in 100 tempo in one pedal Coz I don't have double pedal And I'm only 14 year old

My man 🌶️

Thanks a lot \,,/

Do you discuss the synchronization between left and right in your couse? I find it almost impossible to control alternating with ankle technique.

Sadly the course doesn’t seem available anymore

Hey Cameron! Great video, very helpful! Does the foot stay on the pedal the whole time or does it leave the footboard for a split second during the stroke? Have been trying to achieve mastery of this technique for the better half of 3 years now with no success :( and everyone mentions that their staring tempo is 150 or 160 while I seem to struggle with like 110 using the ankle technique, so my leg stroke is actually faster, so I must be doing something wrong lol

Hey Cameron! Thanx for the nice vid, very helpful... I play drums for about 25 years, but I had always issues with single strokes duble bass above 140. About 15 years ago I started to use heeltoe and I'm able to play clean and tight up to 240. But I always wanted to play it with single strokes. After I had seen your vid, I started to practice the ankle motion again. My problem is, that my feet often hit the bassdrum at the same time, so I still cannot control the motion properly. Any advice? Thank you! Adam from Hungary

Hey Cam ... what about the slave pedal being way too slow from the right one and if I overtighten the spring then the resistance grows ..

Are we allowed to sit on drummers leg while they playing the drums?

can this ankle muscle use be used for single foot kicking too? I have some songs where there is just a bit fast double and my leg tenses up trying to do them unless i use heel toe which i dont really like using

Hi Cameron I am new to double kick Simple question When your play 16ths with your 2 feet and 2 and 4 with your left hand on snare Does the snare hit with the right foot or left foot? Since i am start the kick with my right i figure the left hand and right foot are hitting together Is this correct? TY

Is it possible to get as fast as with the heel-toe technique? I realized most of extrem Metal drummer (especially in Deathcore) use Heel-Toe for the fast parts

Hey Cameron, thanks for your advices! My problem is this: I can effortlessly maintain a certain speed for each individual foot (let's say 150 bpm left and right for 10 minutes; it always takes a few seconds for the right foot to adjust though). However, bringing the feet together afterwards (same bpm), I cannot. Their motions overlap in speed, so it's still asynchronous. Reducing the speed seems complicated for the ankle technique. So should I just keep trying to train each foot individually to specific speeds in hopes that I gain control and make them running together more fluently in the future? Or is that approach rather useless? Maybe others have experience, too. Thank you very much and good luck to you all🙏

This is exactly what I'm doing with my feet too. I'm currently at 160 bpm, left leg going from 8th to 16th notes with a 5 minute timer. Same thing with the right leg. Then after that I do both feet, going from 8th to 16th for 5 mins. Often I do sessions multiple times with the left or right foot in one session. It's super boring and tedious but it does work! The hardest part I'm finding out isn't the ankle motion itself, it's synchronizing the actual switch from leg to ankle and having it sound good PLUS have the ankle motion go smoothly on both feet.

For whatever reason, when I try to "bounce" the pedal with my right (dominate) foot, my ankle wants to spasm into a nervous twitching motion. I can't seem to relax the motion, even at a slow bpm like 120.

Questions! 1. When I rest my leg on the pedals, show the spring tension be enough to hold up my legs? 2. Is it better to practice with shoes on or no shoes?

2 years trying yes with methronome etc my body just doesnt do it

How far up should I be raising my heel?

What is most interesting here is that your ankle technique seemingly is the complete opposite ankle technique taught by Marthyn Jovanovic (Double Bass Drum Mastery guru). His main points in terms of ankle technique is, apart from not using glutes, hamstring or hip flexors (i.e no upper leg involvement), to: 1) Contract the calf muscle 2) NOT activate tibialis anterior 3) Focus on raising and lowering your HEEL (in other words DO NOT tap with the ball of your foot or your toes) Your analogy with the ball bouncing and beater rebound is apparently more based on tapping the front/ball of your foot (?), as opposed to raising the heel. This is probably what causes confusion among many. Another analogy would be: Hold your palm flat out above a surface. When you want to hit the surface, do you focus on tapping with the fingers, or do you raise the meaty part of your palm/wrist in order to hit the surface? Marthyn is confident in the latter option. You (and seemingly also Thomas Lang) appears to be more into tapping and entertaining the build up of tibialis anterior. Thoughts? Here is Marthyn btw: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtqgpZl0u7eqgKs.html

Technique is definitely something you should work on but there is one important thing that you need to not overlook and that is having quality equipment and maintenance in that equipment making sure that it is in good working order or else all the technique in the world is going to be for nothing. Well, not nothing but I hope you get what I mean. Just my two cents (30 plus years playing drums) HAPPY HITTING 🤘🥁🥁🤘

Is it normal to feel tightness at first on my weak leg around my ankle ?

I've watched so many videos on ankle technique and using your calf but it just doesn't click with me. I have no idea how to engage my calf to move the pedal in any kind of rhythm. I always end up using my shin muscles. Frustrating

Hi. I have been practicing the ankle technique for 3.5 years now and still can´t control my left ankle over 210 bpm 16th. It is totally uncontrollable, it is twitching extremely irregularly. A clear muscle issue. Is the a secret weapon to solve this problem, or shall I leave the ankle technique and go for Heel-Toe instead? Thanks in advance. / Andreas

I cant even get in it…every body says its like bouncing a ball, but im to stupid to just use my ankle and my cave muscles xD

The ankle tecnique isn't meant for slow speed, you're'e not supposed to play slower tempos it'ss meant for fast tempos and that's what it's used for, so it's just wrong to teach peoole to use it for slower tempos.. 130 and under full leg. 140 a mix of full leg and ankle and everything 150 and over is ankle.